The gift of the body when the soul is given is
but the accomplishment of two affections drawn
headlong one towards the other.
You are only happy in your body that is so lovely
in its native freshness because in all fervour
you may offer it to me wholly as a total alms.
And I give myself to you knowing nothing except
that I am greater by knowing you, who are ever
better and perhaps purer since your gentle body
offered its festival to mine.
Love, oh! let it be for us the sole discernment
and the sole reason of our heart, for us whose
most frenzied happiness is to be frenzied in our
trust.